Healthcare Robotics
John-John Cabibihan
Qatar University
DEIB - Alario Seminar Room (second floor, building 21)
April 20th, 2018
14.30 pm
Contact:
Andrea Bonarini
Research Line:
Artificial intelligence and robotics
Qatar University
DEIB - Alario Seminar Room (second floor, building 21)
April 20th, 2018
14.30 pm
Contact:
Andrea Bonarini
Research Line:
Artificial intelligence and robotics
Abstract
Healthcare is one of the pillars of research in Qatar. This talk gives a general overview of the research and development efforts on healthcare robotics at Qatar University. Our current work encompasses research on surgical, rehabilitation, and socially assistive robotics. For surgical robotics, I describe a tethered capsule endoscope. Additionally, we investigated a force feedback mechanism for robotic assisted minimally invasive surgery. For rehabilitation robotics, I will present the results of our experimental work on a warm and soft prosthetic hand that feels realistic as a human touch. For assistive robotics, I will describe ongoing work on social robotics for children with autism. Finally, I will present some of the research funding programs in Qatar for potential joint application.
Short Bio
John-John Cabibihan received the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering, with specialization in biorobotics, from the Scuola Superiore SantAnna, Pisa, Italy, in 2007 on scholarship grant. Concurrent with his Ph.D. studies, he received another scholarship grant in 2004 from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France. Therein, he spent one year with the Laboratoire de Mecanique et Technologie. From 2008 to 2013, he was an Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, National University of Singapore, where he also served as the Deputy Director of the Social Robotics Laboratory and an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Singapore Institute of Neurotechnologies. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department and a Member of the Faculty Senate of Qatar University. He is Lead/Co-Lead Principal Investigator of several projects under the National Priorities Research Program of Qatar National Research Fund. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Social Robotics, the International Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems, Frontiers in Bionics and Biomimetics, Frontiers in Special Education Needs, and Computational Cognitive Science. He was the General Chair of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (Manila, 2013); Program Chair of the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2012 in Chengdu, China, and ICSR 2016 in Kansas City, USA; and Program Co-Chair of ICSR 2010 (Singapore) and ICSR 2017 (Tsukuba, Japan). Over the years, his work has been focused toward assistive and social robotics for the therapy of children with autism, lifelike prosthetics, bioinspired tactile sensing, and human-robotic touch and gestures.